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Wisdom Quotes - random


Evelyn Waugh | Wisdom Quotes
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
Husayn ibn Ali
Increase of experiences, increases the wisdom of mankind.




Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
Edward Young
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
Cato the Elder | Wisdom Quotes
'Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom too fine spun.
Ali al-Rida
Silence is one of the gates to wisdom.
Vernon Howard
The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.
Daniel Webster
Wisdom begins at the end.
Samuel Johnson | Wisdom Quotes
With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind,
And makes the happiness she does not find.




Mason Cooley
Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.
Walter Lippmann
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Edmund Burke
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Samuel Johnson
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
John Cheever | Wisdom Quotes
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two.
Adlai Stevenson
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
Robert A. Heinlein
Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.
Bertolt Brecht
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.
Heraclitus
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.


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